harvmac

I have now talked to 3 different Carnival agents and have read through the documentaion extensively as well as all of your posts and I am now to the conclusion that...

UNDER 16 THEY DO NOT NEED A PICTURE ID WHEN LEAVING AND RETURNING TO THE SAME U.S. PORT.

So therfore I am continuing the "surprize" factor of our trip. I know that some of you thought I should tell them, but we have found that our kids LOVE surprizes, we purposely dont give them too many and up untill a few months ago we would not have been able to give them such a "surprize".

So this time next week we will be making our way to Miami with the intent that "we found a nice little warm va-ca spot that we are gonna spend a long weekend at." This of course will be told to them the day before as to not raise too many questions before hand.

I will post their reaction after next week!

Thanks All!!

harv

yeah I just got off the phone with carnival a bit ago and she told me 13 and older. My youngest turns 13 5 days before we sail! ha!

So I am taking my family on our first cruise, I thought we would keep it short and sweet, so we can kinda get our feet wet. My wife and I decided to make it a surprize for our kids, Kinda just "show up" at the boat.

We knew we had to bring thier Birth Certificates but what I found out (10 days before cruise time) was that any child 13 or older MUST have a Picture ID!:confused: This was NOT told to me by my cruise director when she asked my kid's names and ages. This would have been really good info to have early!

So now today, I am scrambling to figure out how I am going to get them picture ID's and still keep it a secret...

grrr to you Carnival and Homeland Security!